Overview
- Officials report at least 273 to 285 people killed, roughly 3,800–4,000 injured and hundreds missing as casualty totals rise across multiple departments.
- Rescue teams, three days after the quake, say the 72-hour 'ventana dorada' for finding survivors is ending and operations are shifting toward body recovery and damage assessments.
- Authorities list massive housing and public infrastructure losses, with more than 12,000 homes destroyed, tens of thousands damaged, hundreds of collapsed buildings and widespread impacts on schools and health centers.
- Colombia has declared a national disaster and received international rescue brigades and aid commitments while the government outlines a national reconstruction plan and deploys engineering teams to assess buildings.
- Regional hazards and response strains are growing: heavy rains have triggered a large landslide that blocked a major highway in Junín, Peru, tsunami alerts linked to a distant Indonesian quake were monitored and aftershocks continue to test emergency capacity.